A Constructive Arx Thread
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@eye8urcake said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
Is there a yoke on changing the home property/properties owned by roster PCs when you first take them? If so, what do you do to get things fixed when they’re super broken/misspelled/ugly/etc?
There’s a guide on the Wiki here about how to do it in terms of code, structure, and colouring rules. Plus if you are changing the name then how to change the exits.
Even when I follow it, I end up calling the exit o <o>,o and have to ask staff to fix it.
Every. Single. Time.
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@Whisky said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
Even when I follow it, I end up calling the exit o <o>,o and have to ask staff to fix it.
Every. Single. Time.
I mean, I wrote the most of the guide and I still have to like triple-review how I typed out the potential new exit because yeah
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@JKER It’s not. I’m keeping the original design, just fixing spelling and tense and adding one new animal-based outbuilding. There’s nothing in the descriptions for the actual housing at all, so I think they split before they finished it.
I can’t get the descriptions I put in to stay, it always gives me the positive message that it’s going to change then reverts to the original. Also, the second room of the property has no owner.
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I haven’t had to build anything for awhile, but I think you have to like enter twice for a room descrip to take - I may be misremembering. Like, it’s all ‘this is how it will look - if you like it, repeat the command’ or something. If it doesn’t stick after THAT, then yeah - may have to ping staff. If I’m even right about the above, which
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@Tori said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
I haven’t had to build anything for awhile, but I think you have to like enter twice for a room descrip to take - I may be misremembering. Like, it’s all ‘this is how it will look - if you like it, repeat the command’ or something. If it doesn’t stick after THAT, then yeah - may have to ping staff. If I’m even right about the above, which
Yeah, it may be a case of asking you to re-enter a second time to confirm.
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It may also be fighting with a seasonal description. I think if a seasonal one is set, that will generally take precedence.
For the room without ownership, you’d have to put in a request to staff, there’s not a way player side to fix that.
ETA: I’d also suggest getting live help on the Info channel might be helpful for you, since you can go into more detail and people can help more specifically.
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@Roz said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
It may also be fighting with a seasonal description. I think if a seasonal one is set, that will generally take precedence.
For the room without ownership, you’d have to put in a request to staff, there’s not a way player side to fix that.
ETA: I’d also suggest getting live help on the Info channel might be helpful for you, since you can go into more detail and people can help more specifically.
Just to touch on the above, YES, it does take enter + enter again to confirm, like most things in Arx, and I got that bit right.
THIS though, THIS is interesting because yes, there are seasonal descriptions so I’ll go look at those when I wake up, and I’ll drop a line to staff about the ownership on the other empty room. Thank you!
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Every time I’ve looked at Arx nobody on roster appealed to me, and apparently, there is no way to make your own character anymore. Or at least there wasn’t when last I looked.
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@Mourne OC creation has been off for awhile. I’m sorry the roster is so full of drek, it is my deep regret that I could not personally fix this by generating 10,000 PCs.
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@Mourne Yeah, it can be tough finding something appealing right now. But most characters have a lot of flexibility in them, so if you find someone that makes you think “this would be great other than X” it may be possible to solve that (depending on X, of course). That’s my best advice - it took me a couple months to find my last roster character.
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@Mourne said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
Every time I’ve looked at Arx nobody on roster appealed to me, and apparently, there is no way to make your own character anymore. Or at least there wasn’t when last I looked.
So there is also the SECRET HARD MODE roster. Someone else can find the bb post, but there is a list of characters that have had a tendency to get picked up and rostered shortly because people couldn’t figure out what to do or how to get involved or secret was too complicated.
They do not show up on the Available, Unavailable, or Deceased list, but do show up on family and org lists, if you feel like combing though those instead of checking the bb.
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@Jennkryst said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
So there is also the SECRET HARD MODE roster.
That doesn’t sound like a good idea for someone new to the theme
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@Mourne You can also go on and ask for help on the Guest channel. Say “I would like to play something like XYZ, does anyone have ideas of a character that would fit that?” It’s what I did and Aleksei recommended Eleanor and I’ve had her for five years. Thanks, pal!
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@Mourne said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
@Jennkryst said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
So there is also the SECRET HARD MODE roster.
That doesn’t sound like a good idea for someone new to the theme
My best suggestion is log in as a guest and find a staffer and/or a player on the guest channel that’s available for a more indepth conversation of what kinds of things you like to play – and see if somebody can point you towards something that a- fits at least close, and b- has a support structure around it that will make being new to the theme easier.
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I appreciate all the advice. I might take a shot but I worry that is what is on the roster is all there is… I’m one of those people who do excessive reading on a new game. I dug through all the youngish male characters (As I definitely do not want to play an old person who should be way more knowledgeable than I will be) on the roster.
I will give it a shot when I am feeling more willing to accept disappointment.
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What the others have said! Sometimes rosters get marked Inactive instead of put back on the roster for various reasons, but staff might put them up for application at request, depending on the situation. Like, in my glancing at that Roster Audit list, there’s definitely some really fun PCs in there.
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The audit list is also 8 months old, so a few have been picked up since then.
Truly the best way to find someone is to ask… also just wing it if you happen to pick up a theology 5 character. I include lots of ‘character smart, player dumb’ in my rp, and it seems to keep too many issues from springing up.
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@Mourne said in A Constructive Arx Thread:
person who should be way more knowledgeable than I will be
I know that this is a matter of personal preference so I’m not trying to say you should change how you react to it, but, you don’t gotta know, nobody is going to expect that you know, and people are SUPER COOL with being helpful. There’s a channel to ask about stuff on, and if you make it clear you are open to feedback to people, they will (generally helpfully, even!) educate you as-you-go. Extra info in poses and stuff. Nobody comes in knowing.
The problems and complaining you hear about this stuff is 100% people who proceed on assumptions without being open to feedback, and when advice or guidance is offered, it gets pushback from them, or they double down, or they argue. If you go ‘oh hey I didn’t actually know dresses aren’t gendered clothing items, lemme repose’ in the moment, repose, and then don’t double down on dresses being gendered later…you’ll be FINE.
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Learning is a big part of it, and there… is actually a maybe in-setting explanation for people getting amnesia here and there to explain different players picking up the character and playing them different. I COULD BE WRONG, but that feels like an IC reason why they have journals - so if amnesia happens, the character can read about things they thought were important and forgot about.
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